Triumph Quotes - Page 36

• There really is "no effort without error and shortcoming" and there really is no triumph without vulnerability.

  Brené Brown

  Errors, Empathy, Effort

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, andLead”, p.249, Penguin

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• Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh - over fear...Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Soul, Heroism, Flesh

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• Scientific medicine is one of the greatest triumphs of humankind.

  Raymond Tallis

  Science, Medicine, Humankind

  Raymond Tallis (2015). “Hippocratic Oaths: Medicine and its Discontents”, p.7, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Winter, Moon

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• In architecture the pride of man, his triumph over gravitation, his will to power, assume a visible form. Architecture is a sort of oratory of power by means of forms.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mean, Pride, Men

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• The Maria Mayer shell model suggestion in 1949 was a great triumph and fitted my belief that a nuclear shell model should represent a proper approach to understanding nuclear structure.

  James Rainwater

  Understanding, Suggestions, Nuclear

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• I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution.

  Jonas Salk

  Errors, Evil, Evolution

  In Academy of Achievement interview, in San Diego, California, May 16, 1991.

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• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  David Mumford

  Children, Hate, School

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• To some, the temporal triumph of the Christian community in the world is a sign of God's favor and the essential righteousness of the Christian position. The irony of the matter, though, is that whenever the Christian community gains worldly power, it nearly always loses its capacity to be the critic of the power and influence it so readily brokers.

  Peter J. Gomes

  Christian, Community, Essentials

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• Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph.

  Jack Donovan

  Fighting, Men, Sometimes

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• For readers worldwide, the attraction of romance novels seems to be that they provide hope, strength, and the assurance that happy endings are possible. Romance makes the promise that no matter how bleak things sometimes look, in the end everything will turn out right and true love will triumph -- and in an uncertain world, that's very comforting.

  Leigh Michaels

  Romance, Comforting, Promise

  Leigh Michaels (2007). “On Writing Romance: How to Craft a Novel That Sells”, p.5, Writer's Digest Books

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• Judge not for your flaws, but for your Triumphs!

  Whitney Houston

  Judging, Flaws

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• God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

  Tony Evans

  Imagine, Turns, Monstrous

  Tony Evans (2011). “God Is Up to Something Great: Turning Your Yesterdays into Better Tomorrows”, p.27, Multnomah

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• It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.

  Bob Thaves

  Evil, Triumph Over Evil, Spread

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• This is why I say that the individual's most potent weapon is a stubborn belief in the triumph of common decency.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Common Decency, Stubborn, Weapons

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Idiots have always been exploited, and this is only right. The day they cease to be, they will triumph, and the world will be lost.

  Alfred Capus

  World, Idiot, Lost

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• What are movies for if not to have the good guys triumph over the bad ones?

  Margaret Carlson

  Guy, Good Guy, Ifs

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• It took me years and years of trial efforts to work out that there is absolutely no knitting triumph I can achieve that my husband will think is worth being woken up for.

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

  Husband, Thinking, Knitting

  Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.26, Storey Publishing

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• Men's souls are crooked and unsound things, not good materials out of which to build friendships, families, households, cities, civilizations. But good or no, these things must be built, and we must craft them with the materials at hand, and make as strong and stubborn redoubt as we can make, lest the horrors of the Night should triumph over us, not in some distant age to come, but now.

  John C. Wright

  Strong, Night, Men

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• Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves you gasping from shock and laughing moments later: this is both the beauty and unique nature of her storytelling. With brilliance and courage, the author's brave and candid chronicle travels where no other memoir about mental illness and addiction has gone before. The Third Sunrise is an incredible triumph and Natalie Jeanne Champagne is without a doubt the most important new voice in this genre.

  Andy Behrman

  Pain, Unique, Agony

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• Straight lines go too quickly to appreciate the pleasures of the journey. They rush straight to their target and then die in the very moment of their triumph without having thought, loved, suffered or enjoyed themselves.

  Rene Crevel

  Journey, Appreciate, Lines

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• Artists are a free society's greatest advocates and its best bulwarks. Their triumphs are civilization's triumphs.

  Andres Serrano

  Artist, Civilization, Free Society

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• The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness.

  Barack Obama

  Light, Flames, Darkness

  Barack Obama's Statement on the Observance of Diwali, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. November 1, 2013.

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• Courage is the best slayer - courage which attacketh, for in every attack there is the sound of triumph.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sound, Slayer

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